This led to inter-cantonal religious wars ( Kappeler Kriege ) in 1529 and 1531, because each canton usually made the opposing religion illegal, and to the formation of two diets, the Protestant one meeting in Aarau and the Catholic one in Lucerne ( as well as the formal full diet still meeting usually in Baden ) but the Confederation survived.

Although the name suggests that they are located in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Lucerne, Obwalden, Fribourg and Vaud.

The lake is mostly within the borders of the Canton of Zug, with about at its southern end in the canton Schwyz, while the Canton of Lucerne claims about to the north of Immensee.

Category: Lakes of the canton of Lucerne

It borders the canton of Schwyz to the south and southeast ; the cantons of Lucerne and the ‘ Freiamt ’ of canton Aargau to the west ; and the canton of Zurich to the north and northeast.

Every day about 37, 000 people come to Zug to work, 12, 000 of whom are from the canton of Lucerne.

Schwyz ( Standard German ) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz.

* Municipalities of the canton of Lucerne

The Reuss River enters the lake at Flüelen ( in the canton of Uri, the part called Urnersee ) and exits at Lucerne.

Lake Lucerne borders on the three original Swiss cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden ( which today is divided into the Cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden ), as well as the canton of Lucerne, thus the name Vierwaldstättersee ( Lake of the Four Forested Cantons ).

Category: Lakes of the canton of Lucerne

Category: Museums in the canton of Lucerne

The canton of Waldstätten also consisted of what is today the Canton of Schwyz, the Canton of Lucerne, Unterwalden and the Canton of Uri.

The canton of Lucerne and Canton of Aargau lie to its west.

The Lake Ägeri is wholly within the canton, whereas the Lake Zug is shared with the cantons of Lucerne and Schwyz.

Railways connect the canton of Zug both with Lucerne and with Zurich, while lines running along either shore of the lake of Zug join at the Arth-Goldau station of the St. Gotthard railway.

East of the canton of Bern lie the cantons of Uri, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Lucerne and Aargau.

Lucerne () is a canton of Switzerland.

The canton of Lucerne comprises territories acquired by its capital Lucerne, either by treaty, armed occupation or purchase.

The canton of Basel-Landschaft lies in the north of Switzerland.

Chur or Coire ( – in general and in Graubünden –, – in other places of Switzerland –; ; or ; ; ;, and ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern part of the canton.

The canton of Valais lies in the southwest of Switzerland.

The historical landmark Rütli lies within the canton of Uri.

To the north, the canton is bound by the Canton of Zurich, whereas to the east and south lies the Canton of Schwyz.

The land is almost entirely surrounded by Germany, which lies to the north, east and west of the canton.

The small district of Rüdlingen-Buchberg lies in the southwest of the canton, and the third part contains Ramsen and Stein am Rhein to the east.

Furthermore, the German exclave town of Büsingen am Hochrhein lies along part of the southern border of the main section of the canton.

Most of the canton lies on a plateau dominated by the Hoher Randen.

The canton of Fribourg lies in the west of Switzerland.

To the west and the south of the canton lies the canton of Vaud.

The canton lies on the elevated Swiss Plateau.

The Bernese Oberland is the mountainous region which lies in the south of the canton.

In the north of the canton lies the predominantly French speaking Three Lakes Region ( Seeland ), concentrated around Lake Biel, Neuchâtel, and Murten, which rises from the plain up to the northernmost Swiss mountain chain of the Jura.

To the west and south lies the canton of Bern, to the east is Aargau.

The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel, but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud, of Fribourg, and of Bern.

Village of Lungern The village of Lungern lies above sea level in the highest part of the canton of Obwalden, on the lake of Lungern and at the foot of the Brünig Pass.

Lake Neuchâtel lies southeast of the canton, while the canton of Vaud is southwest of the canton of Neuchâtel.

The canton lies in the central area of the Jura Mountains.

The canton of Ticino ( on the south side ) is almost snow-free in early autumn.

This makes a large difference between the south, where the lateral short valleys descend abruptly into the deep trench forming the valley of the Rhone and the north, where the Bernese Alps extends through a great part of the canton of Berne ( Bernese Oberland ), throwing out branches to the west into the adjoining cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.

The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the Amorites, divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions: The enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon, ( referred to as " field of Moab ") the more open rolling country north of the Arnon, opposite Jericho, and up to the hills of Gilead ( called the " land of Moab ") and the district below sea level in the tropical depths of the Jordan valley.

The canton of Ticino is located in the south of Switzerland.

It is surrounded by six other municipalities, Lustenau and Dornbirn in the Dornbirn district ( north and east ), Fraxern, Götzis and Altach in the Feldkirch district ( south ) and Diepoldsau in the Swiss canton St. Gallen ( west ).

Upon the inclusion of the Iqlim al-Kharrub coastal enclave south of Beirut into the canton in 1984-85, a Druze-run ‘ Holding ’, the COGECO group, was made responsible for running illegal activities at the ports of Jiyeh and Khalde, including importation of fuel from Iran, drug-trafficking and gambling at clandestine permises.

Liestal ( in former times Liesthal ) is the capital of the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland, south of Basel.

To the south it borders the Swiss canton Thurgau and Schaffhausen.

The canton of Solothurn and Basel-Landschaft are to east of the canton, while the canton of Bern bounds the Jura to the south.

The mountain overlooks the town of Zermatt in the canton of Valais to the north-east and Breuil-Cervinia in the Aosta Valley to the south.

The Konkordiaplatz or Concordia ( French: Place de la Concorde ), is a large flat area of snow and ice lying just to the south of the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.

The canton stretches from Lake Neuchâtel in the north, where it borders the canton of Neuchâtel, to Lake Geneva in the south, where it borders the canton of Geneva, the French department of Haute-Savoie ( lake border ) and the canton of Valais.